Burnett, Whit. & Foley, Martha. (Editors)STORY IN AMERICA, 1933-1934.VANGUARD. NY 1934 1934 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine Fine in near fine dust jacket. (Slender chip at base of spine on dust jacket. Jacket toned at spine, but perfectly readable. ) Features the FIRST book appearance of Zora Neale Hurston's great story "The Gilded Six-Bits." Also included are William Faulkner's "Artist At Home", and John Fante's "My Mother's Goofy Song." (GC)
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375.00 USD

Gregory, Horace. (Editor)NEW LETTERS IN AMERICA.NORTON. NY 1937 1937 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Near fine in a Nf. dj. (A few spots of soiling on endpapers. Spine on dj. slightly aged toned. Hint of shelfsoiling) Features an early Elizabeth Bishop story. Also stories by John Cheever & Franz Kafka.
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200.00 USD

Jolas, Eugene & Sage, Robert. (Editors)TRANSITION STORIES.NY WALTER V. MCKEE. 1929 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good First Edition. Very good+ copy in red cloth with black titles in good only dust jacket. (Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down concealed by flap. Spine on jacket toned with chipping at spine ends, removing the "T" in "Transition". Short edge tears & traces of shelf wear to jacket. Couple short nicks in cloth at crest of spine. ) One of the great published anthologies of the period, printing in hardcover work by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Robert Desnos, Kay Boyle, Karl Schwitters, Gertrude Stein, Robert M. Coates & several others. (GC)
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375.00 USD

Lehmann, John. (Ed.) Isherwood, Christopher. (Contributor)NEW WRITING. SPRING 1938.NY: KNOPF. 1938 1938 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket First American edition. Vg.+ or better copy in a nearly fine priceclipped dj. (Fore edge foxed, as are both endpapers. Offsetting to endpapers as well) Features a long (36pp.) story by Christopher Isherwood "The Landauers." This story was later incorporated into "Berlin Stories." (O)
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150.00 USD

Steinbeck, John. (Contributor) Hansen, Harry. (Ed.)O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1938.DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY. 1938 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. (Off-setting from jacket at cloth on spine. Dime-size chips at upper right-hand corner of rear panel. Several short edge tears & small chips in DJ. Orange hue on spine of DJ. Lightly faded. ) Features John Steinbeck's story "The Promise." Also, Richard Wright's story "Fire And Cloud." Daniel Fuchs & William Saroyan.
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125.00 USD